I'll totally confess it: I only started to pick this book up because the Black Knight was making an appearance. (Hey, it's not like he's had much exposure anywhere else recently.)
So I guess this means that I'm getting an X-Book now--by the way, is Excalibur still considered an X-Book?--which is a little annoying. We do get New X-Men but that's for the twelve-year-old--other than that, it was the X-books that drove me away from comics 10-12 years ago so I've been avoiding them this time around.
The question is, would I be picking this up if the Black Knight wasn't in it (which is another question, will he join up?)? And the answer is, I don't know but probably, yeah. Keeping in mind that there are plenty of things I don't quite understand in this book (the Juggernaut is a good guy?--and younger? Dazzler has a personality?--and a mean streak?), on the whole I'm enjoying it. The whole "hero group that spends more time fighting each other than they do crime" thing isn't new (remember the Avengers back in the 60s?) but it's entertaining. Captain Britain is more interesting than he used to be, which I'll grant would have been no difficult feat (there were other reasons I bought the old Excalibur title, such as all the other characters in that book!), Dazzler in particular is fun to read, and the group interplay as a whole is good. If the Knight stays on the book, I'll certainly keep getting it. If not, maybe. We'll see.
(Speaking of the Knight, I notice he's being drawn with grey hair again here. Apparently he used to hit the hair dye during that whole thing with Crystal and Sersi back in the Avengers.)
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